Sure, you could mosey over to the US site, but you’d miss out on all the juicy gaming goodness that’s relevant – and important – to you. The Australian edition of Kotaku is focused on taking all this fantastic news and crafting it into a tasty treat for all you Aussies and Kiwis. Whether it’s the latest info on a new game, or hot gossip on the industry’s movers, shakers and smashers, you’ll find it all here and nicely packaged at Kotaku. They’d be one in the same in every lexicon on the planet if it were humanly possible. And this Ice Age game, even if it wasn’t built to be, is a perfect love letter to a type of game from that era that we don’t get anymore. ![]() But for many people today, they grew up playing games on the PS2 and Gamecube. We have a lot of great indie games out nowadays that recreate NES or SNES gaming experiences. A game you play for a weekend, enjoy and probably never play again. Instead, I’ll promise a simple and fun little platformer that feels like it fell off of a Blockbuster rental shelf, circa 2003. I’m not promising some incredible, marvellous video game experience. And again, there are some problems and issues with it.īut if you ever played and enjoyed old PS2 platformers, good or bad ones, and miss those games, you might want to check out Scrat’s Nutty Adventure. It is very VERY easy to look at screenshots of this game or the trailer and dismiss it or make fun of it. But playing a colourful and simple licensed platformer did activate some part of my brain and made me happy. I don’t even like the Ice Age films or have any strong feelings about the franchise. It’s weird to have a nostalgic reaction to something brand new. But I ended up playing it for nearly 3 hours. I sat down to only play it for an hour, just to grab some screenshots and get a feel for it. The camera can bug out in places, animations don’t always look great and combat isn’t fun at all. There are some annoying issues in Scrat’s Nutty Adventure, for sure. Scrat’s Nutty Adventure feels like one of those games like it was frozen back in 2003 before it was published and only now, in 2019, has it been thawed out and released. And as a kid, it was so cool to play a game on my TV based on a cartoon or movie I loved. Sure many of these licensed games were bad, but not all of them. And it’s odd to feel this way, but I think I miss those games? Sure licensed games still exist, but they’ve all mostly moved to mobile platforms. The thing is, this game and its wild story reminded me of a lot of those licensed games we use to get back in the PS2-era of gaming. You hop around these levels, collecting gems and finding hidden items. The levels have a solid amount of variety and visually, these look pretty good. The actual game is a fairly basic platformer with some light combat elements. Honestly, it isn’t that weird considering the last Ice Age film had a plot that was entirely put into motion by Scrat poorly operating a UFO. To unlock the secrets of the ruins and become powerful, Scrat needs to track down three super nuts. At the start of the Scrat finds ruins of a technologically advanced ancient squirrel civilisation. It stars Scrat, that weird and overly hyper squirrel (?) who is always looking for a nut. Ice Age: Scrat’s Nutty Adventure was released for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on October 18th. What’s even weirder is that this game isn’t bad. It’s weird that three years after the last film we get a new game. For some reason the world received a new Ice Age video game, starring Scrat. There has been the talk of a new film or TV series, but nothing has actually released in the last 3 years. The last Ice Age film or short came out back in 2016.
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